Cross-cultural study on adult age-group differences in the recall of the literal and interpretive meanings of narrative text

Japanese Psychological Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-90

  Hosokawa, Aya ^a   Hosokawa, Toru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deep interpretation; Interpretation task; Retelling task; Synthetic interpretation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744816198     PISSN: 00215368     EISSN: 14685884     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5884.2006.00308.x     Document Type: Article

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